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Status anxiety

Giving up alcohol is not as much fun as I’d hoped

There is pleasure in the self-denial, but all the joy has gone

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

Two months ago, I set myself the target of losing 11 pounds in time for the Spectator’s summer party on 1 July. To help achieve that, I swore off alcohol and, had I succeeded, my plan was to start drinking again at the party. I managed the weight loss, but didn’t make it to the party because it clashed with a board meeting of the educational charity I set up five years ago.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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